This year Nate and I decided it was finally time to send out Christmas cards! The timing just seemed right and to us Christmas cards seems like a right of passage to full adulthood - a little scary I might add. When did we get so old that now we have a family of our own and are sending out Christmas cards? We still feel young.
Anyways, trying to be frugal I decided I would design the cards myself, find a place to print them, and save money in the long run. So, I started poking around on a few sites I know and trust for great design ideas - namely Shutterfly. I have ordered photobooks for my digital scrapbooking in the past from them and have loved how they turned out and the quality. The colors are always exactly how they appeared on screen - which sometimes isn't always the case. Since I am on Shutterfly's email list I have been receiving emails regarding their new Christmas photo cards for 2010. Shutterfly has so many different designs and styles using traditional Christmas colors to more playful ones and also more traditional designs that I started getting really excited. They have amazing designers working for them.
The longer I searched through the numerous designs, the more excited I got and started dropping in my pictures - just to see how the cards would really look once they were personalized. I fell in love! The program was so easy to use and it's awesome how you can personalize each card to really make it your own. I really wanted to use Shutterfly but thought it would be too expensive. Then, I heard about a great promotion Shutterfly had to receive 50 free cards. Hmm. Would it be worth it? As I started pricing out the options (Trust me that I know how to use excel and did create a spreadsheet. Would you expect anything less from Nate and me?) I realized with the free cards Shutterfly would be no more expensive than my other options, and did I mention envelopes are included in the price? That was the clincher for me. Plus, the quality is better than anything I could have done on my own. So, you may just be getting one of these Christmas cards from the DeFries family this year. We have a few favorites and are having a hard time narrowing it down.
On another note - I just received an email from Shutterfly promoting photo calendars. Isn't that the perfect gift for family? Shutterfly may just have won more loyalty from me.
Hats off to Shutterfly!
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This is really funny! Andy and I are doing the same thing you are. We got the Shutterfly magazine and picked out a few that Andy could design himself, but then I just read about the promo on your blog. Looks like that is the way to go! Great friends think alike, right?
Reading this just took away tons of my guilt for not sending out Christmas cards this year :) I just can't quite seem to get things together! I'm going to remember Shutterfly for next year (hopefully?), though!
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